Stephen Gilbreath Goes Bat-Shit Crazy Claiming "PERSECUTION" After "...Jr's pizazz boy's squelch Herbert Armstrong's message"

The die-hard followers of Armstrongism are up in arms over Grace Communion International's take-down of a vast library of Herbert Armstrong videos on YouTube recently.

The latest to jump into the foray is Stephen Gilbreath, a wanna-be church leader who has one of the most pathetic "web casts" ever produced by a COG group.  Even the crooked and sad videos of the Doubly-blessed Apostle/Prophet Bob Theil look like major works of art compared to Gilbreaths.

The world could care less about the "truth" the various COG's claim as restored knowledge and is therefore not persecuting the COG.  What has shocked many is that one of their "own" is leading the attack from the "inside."  "FAMINE OF THE WORD" and "PERSECUTION" is the name of the game now.  Appeals for money to fight this attack will soon be made and gullible people will dish out more money for "the final push."

Published on Apr 18, 2015

In today's Sabbath.TV live stream for 18-March-2015 we talk a little about the current doings of the Joseph Tkach Jr. administration of the so-called Grace Communion International organization (''GCI'') against God's Church with a new persecution that began this week on 15-April.

Through his newly appointed media man -- one Dr. Kenny Ryan -- Junior lays claim to the rights to the broadcasts and telecasts of Herbert W. Armstrong under copyright infringement laws. But is not the real truth that Junior's pizazz boys are trying to squelch voice of Mr. Armstrong in opposition of a ''right'' to his voice which is a voice that was never for sale but which bought the truth and shared it freely. Are the pizazz boys not claiming rights to material which they by their actions deny their ''rights'' to the material.

When copyright is used to squelch a talk that was intended to be freely broadcast or telecast -- which, in fact, Mr. Armstrong PAID money to radio and television stations to broadcast and that without a request for money or payment from viewers -- is the right being properly exercised or used -- or MISUSED! Do not those who claim rights via a trust given them which trust they have betrayed -- make themselves in fact UNWORTHY of the trust placed in them.

Why is it that there is not one single COG leader out here in TVland that presents a "sane" image to the world?  Gilbreath certainly doesn't, the three amigo's on the UCG channel don't and Pack and Flurry cannot no matter how hard they try.  None of these men have any credibility, yet they wonder why people and money are not steadily flowing into their churches.

LCG Members Asking: "Was LCG Behind the Take Down of Mark Scarboroughs HWALibrary Videos?"

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...

This is from an LCG member:

This past Sabbath the conversations were centered around the take down of the video sermons by Herbert W Armstrong that the HWA Library had posted on YouTube over the past several years.

What many people did not know is that the HWA Library site was owned and operated by Mark Scarborough.  One of your blog followers did some sleuthing and discovered this:

The owner of the HWAlibrary.com is listed on whois.com as this...
Registrant Name: Mark Scarborough
Registrant Organization: mjjs.com
Registrant Street: PO Box 1550
Registrant City: Independence
Registrant State/Province: Missouri
Registrant Postal Code: 64055
Registrant Country: United States

The questioned that many were asking was, "Is the LCG behind this?"  The LCG has had a deep seated hatred of the Scarborough family over the last few years.  Mr. Meredith had previously disfellowshipped the entire Scarborough clan except for Mark Scarborough and his wife.  They too recently felt the wrath of Mr. Meredith when they were also disfellowshipped.

Did LCG HQ staff go behind the scenes and contact Grace Communion letting them know that Mark was the owner of the HWA Library site?

LCG is creating its own firestorm right now with all the bitterness and anger that emanates from the HQ staff.  Many are wondering if we are now witnessing the destruction of the LCG.

Norbert Link: Voting Is A "GRAVE" Sin and When You Vote You Are Electing Satan To Power

One thing that Armstrongism did decades ago was to adopt the Catholic view on "sin."  There are "major" sins and "minor" sins in the Church of God.  Who determines what is "major" and what is "minor" is always up to interpretation by the splinter group leaders.

Many years ago Rod Meredith made the absurd claim that he had not committed a "major" sin since baptism.  What's "major" in his eyes and what those around him see as his sins and who have suffered under his sinful reign think are two different interpretations.

Now the Church of the Eternal God has come out and said that when a person votes they are committing a "grave" sin.  Voting apparently is on par with adultery, murder, theft, and child abuse, among other things.

To be blunt, voting in governmental, national and presidential elections violates God’s plan for true Christians and constitutes a grave sin. It manifests the absence of faith in God; reveals a complete lack of understanding as to what the role of a true Christian is today; and shows utter ignorance as to who is ruling this world. We will not mince words in this Q&A, because FAR TOO MANY Christians are deceived and are deceiving others on this topic, foolishly thinking that they are serving God and their country by voting in governmental elections. ...

Many other Church of God's realize that voting is not an issue and let their members vote.  The Worldwide Church of God did this for almost all municipal elections, particularity in Big Sandy. The CEG feels it is the only COG out there that is really preserving the truth once restored under HWA and therefore condemns all COG members and Christians who vote.

Why is this? WHY do we take such a strong stance against voting in national elections, while other Christians do not seem to see any problems with this? WHY do we claim that it is part of the Christian DUTY NOT to vote in governmental elections?

The simple answer is: We will NOT water down the truth of God, even though many others do. We will NOT swim with the stream of national pride, patriotism and nationalism, if it involves violating God’s Law. We WILL obey God rather than man, not being afraid of men and their antagonistic reactions and hateful persecution, but being FEARFUL of becoming luke-warm and compromising with God’s Will, even though many Christians do.

These church along with all the other COG's bow down to the rules, laws and ideas of men.  What they think is God's way is only their own interpretation of what they want it to be.  Anything they can do to look down upon others and cast them in a bad light is done.   If they truly followed God then they would not be preaching most of the crap that they do.

Satan is the one who runs all countries around the world and that is who you are voting for when you vote.  You are electing Satan!

We also explain in our booklet that it is SATAN who rules this world and EVERY country, WITHOUT exception. It is true, of course, that Satan can only do what God ALLOWS him to do, but generally speaking, God is NOT getting involved in the affairs of this world, and neither should we. God will ONLY intervene and see to it that certain individuals end up in governmental positions, if they are temporarily needed to fulfill aspects of God’s plan. But this would be GOD’s doing, NOT ours.

Another reason why a Christian is not to vote for a candidate in governmental or local council elections is because he understands the truth about this being Satan’s world at the present time. It is Satan who, with the general permission of God, places candidates into governmental offices. If we were to vote, we might involve ourselves quite directly in Satan’s system. Hosea 8:4 gives us God’s warning in this regard: ‘They set up kings, but not by Me; they made princes, but I did not acknowledge them.

 See:  Is It Really Important  To Understand That We Must Not Vote In Governmental Elections?